Late this afternoon U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that terminally ill patients do NOT have the constitutional right to obtain experimental drugs that have not been approved by the FDA! The Abigal Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs and the Washington Legal Foundation argued that terminally ill patients, including [...]
Yesterday’s post described a program that allowed cancer patients and their family member in need of treatment to hitch a ride on a corporate jet without any charge. Besides this great program, there are a number of organizations throughout the U.S., which have been organized by private pilots who are willing to help their neighbors. [...]
For the last twenty years Corporate Angel Network (CAN), a non-profit organization founded in 1981 and based in Westchester, N.Y., has matched cancer patients and their families with major corporations who are willing to donated empty seats on their private planes. Patients and their families who need to travel to distant locations for their treatments [...]
I thought that I would share the testimony I delivered at the recent FDA hearing on Satraplatin: My name is Joel T. Nowak. I am here today as a consumer and as a representative of the advocacy and educational group Malecare. Neither I, nor any member of my family have any financial interest nor received [...]
Lately, I have been writing about the significant disappointment and anger I feel towards the FDA. Congress has directed the FDA and the FDA’s own regulations require that they have a system for accelerated approval of drugs. Yes, they do have the regulations in place, but they have stopped abiding by their own rules. The [...]